Yeah, there's a gay aspect in the Count of Monte Cristo that got excised or downplayed as well. The question becomes do you want a biased translation that reads

Yeah, there's a gay aspect in the Count of Monte Cristo that got excised or downplayed as well. The question becomes do you want a biased translation that reads better or an unbiased one that reads okay? It's really a case by case thing. Any classicist will tell you Pope butchered the original Homer - he didn't even speak Greek. But his is still the best in English, I think.